Balzac’s Paris in the dark and in the light
Explore Paris arm in arm with Balzac, 19th century France’s most famous novelist and observer.
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Oppositions don’t win elections, governments lose them
Geoffrey Wheatcroft analyses the turmoil of the Tory party.
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Marxist interpretation as a vocation
For our Jameson at 90 series, Anna Kornbluh revisits Fredric Jameson's project to theorize Marx's Capital as a representation in his book Representing Capital. -
The Rebus in Fredric Jameson’s The Hegel Variations
Andrew Cole revisits Fredric Jameson's The Hegel Variations through notes he took as a graduate student in Jameson's seminars for our Jameson at 90 series. -
Jameson’s complex chord
Sianne Ngai likens the totality of Fredric Jameson's work to a musical composition, hitting key notes that synthesize in the composer's master chord. The work that most embodies this phenomenon, she argues, is Jameson's Valences of Dialectic. -
The Student Intifada
The Research & Destroy collective reflect on the student occupations against the ongoing genocide in Gaza in the long struggle both for Palestinian liberation and of student activism, and asks, after its violent repression, where it goes from here. -
Roots
A youth-led organization provides support, empowerment, and reasons for hope to families displaced by the war on Gaza. -
Productivity’s Progress (from This World, to That Which Is to Come)
Beverley Best identifies the critique of value as the central through line of Capital III. -
Why would feminists turn to the police?
Leah Cowan highlights the paradox of criminal legal solutions for violence. -
Verso Book Club Podcast: Jules Gill-Peterson - A Short History of Trans Misogyny
In this second episode of the newly launched Verso Book Club Podcast, Jules Gill-Peterson sits down with our host, Eleanor Penny, to discuss her new book A Short History of Trans Misogyny.
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The Rise and Fall of Labour's New Left
Andy Beckett's The Searchers charts the Labour New Left from its emergence in the late 1960s until it took the leadership of the party under Jeremy Corbyn. Its analysis of the lethal and frequently destructive political skill of the Labour right offers painful lessons for today's activists. -
We need to give people hope
In this interview, Ugo Palheta argues that the Left in France must both resist the threat of fascism and prepare a real alternative to Macronism in order to truly defeat the far right.
